Period 1 Cultural Explorations & Communications-Fall 2022 Assignments

To be completed in class unless absent today.

What do you and your family or friends typically do to celebrate New Year’s Eve? Did you make a new year's resolution this year? If so, what is it? Do you think you'll keep it? If you don’t really celebrate, tell me about some New Year’s traditions that you’re aware of. Think about what people eat, or certain superstitions that people have regarding the new year.

How many XP points do you have in Duolingo overall now? Remember, you want your XP score to go up at least 10 points from Duolingo Question #5 to receive credit. If it's not, be sure to complete a few lessons before you post your score.

*There are several places where you can find your XP score in Duolingo. Go to your PROFILE and look under LANGUAGES. You will see your score under your language. You can also find it on the right hand side of the screen under “Friends.”

*Research and create a Google Slide presentation describing your "Priceless" Adventure.  
*Create an itinerary (an outline of what you plan to do) in Google Docs for your trip (see example below).  
*You are required to document your resources, so create a "Works Cited" page in your Google Slides at the end of your slides.  Do this when you first start your research so you can copy and paste the sites you use throughout your project. 
*Be sure to also have a title page on your slides that includes: your first and last name, class period, the title "Priceless" Adventure, and where you want to go

*When you are done, upload your slides and itinerary to this assignment.

Timeline:
12/7 - Introduce project and complete journal question in Google Classroom (worth 5 points)
12/8 - Distribute rubric, planning sheet, discuss timeline, and begin working on project
12/9 - Work on project in class 

12/12 - 12/16 - Work on project in class (research, plan itinerary, and create Google Slides)

12/19 - Work on project in class
12/20 - Work on project in class
12/21 - Finish project, upload slides and itinerary to this assignment in Google Classroom (don't forget to click on "turn in"), turn in rubric and planning sheet to Ms. Johnston during class
12/22 - Team H plans (more info. to come) 

12/23 - 1/2 - NO SCHOOL (Winter Break) 
1/3 - 1/6 - Present Projects in class

Looking ahead: 1/11 is the last day of class!  The new semester begins on 1/12/22.

How many XP points do you have in Duolingo overall now? Remember, you want your XP score to go up at least 10 points from Duolingo Question #4 to receive credit. If it's not, be sure to complete a few lessons before you post your score.

*There are several places where you can find your XP score in Duolingo. Go to your PROFILE and look under LANGUAGES. You will see your score under your language. You can also find it on the right hand side of the screen under “Friends.”

Write a response to the following question:

If you had the opportunity to go on a “priceless” adventure, what would you do? Remember you have no financial or
distance limits. Let your imaginations run wild (but keep it school appropriate, of course)!

This quiz is to be taken during class unless you are absent or quarantined.  
Choose the BEST answer.

You are a reporter for The Johnston Journal, a daily newspaper in a small Pennsylvania happenin' town. Your boss and editor, just received this email (you'll be handed one in class) and wants to know if it's a true story. If it is, she wants to run it.

Using your web searching skills (Google!), you will find out the truth and report it to your editor in a memo.  Make a copy of the Memo Template below, and save it under your name to get started. 

Your memo will have three paragraphs:
Paragraph 1. Explain the legend
Paragraph 2. Tell what you found out (be sure to include your source)
Paragraph 3. Include your recommendation on whether or not the story should be included in the paper based on the ethics of journalism.  

Skip lines between paragraphs, but do not indent at the beginning of each paragraph.  

Check your document carefully for spelling and grammar mistakes before uploading it to Google Classroom.
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Rubric:
5 points - Assignment was in a Memo format with three paragraphs uploaded to Google Classroom
5 points - The first paragraph explained the legend 
5 points - The second paragraph explained the research (including website)
5 points - The third paragraph explained if it would be published or not (include ethics)
5 points - Good conventions (especially capitalization and punctuation) 

TOTAL = 25 POINTS
*Students may earn bonus points for presenting their memos to the class.

This quiz is to be taken during class unless you are absent or quarantined.  
Choose the BEST answer.

How many XP points do you have in Duolingo overall now? Remember, you want your XP score to go up at least 10 points from Duolingo Question #3 to receive credit. If it's not, be sure to complete a few lessons before you post your score.

*There are several places where you can find your XP score in Duolingo. Go to your PROFILE and look under LANGUAGES. You will see your score under your language. You can also find it on the right hand side of the screen under “Friends.”

This week is Media Literacy Week!  Use what you have learned in class about advertising and evaluating media messages to create a commercial convincing people to visit a country of your choice.  Think about your target audience: your peers.  

Medium: your commercial can be a video, radio (audio) ad., or a brochure.  

Include a propaganda technique and utilize what you have learned about colors in advertising if you are creating a video or a brochure.  

You may work in a group of up to 4 people.  

See rubric for more details.

How many XP points do you have in Duolingo overall now? Remember, you want your XP score to go up at least 10 points from Duolingo Question #2 to receive credit. If it's not, be sure to complete a few lessons before you post your score.

*There are several places where you can find your XP score in Duolingo. Go to your PROFILE and look under LANGUAGES. You will see your score under your language. You can also find it on the right hand side of the screen under “Friends.”

If you watch TV tonight, choose a commercial to analyze and write down the following:
1.Name of product
2.Claim
3.Image
4.Meta message
5.Demographic

**You can also look up a commercial on youtube

This quiz is to be taken during class unless you are absent or quarantined.  
Choose the BEST answer.

Visit (or watch) ONE of the virtual tours or videos posted below. After watching the tour or video,
answer the following questions:

Be sure to number your responses or you WILL lose points.

1. Which virtual tour or video did you watch?

2. Tell me one interesting thing you learned from the tour, or tell me something you observed.

*Remember to use complete sentences, and correct punctuation and capitalization.

How many XP points do you have in Duolingo overall? Remember, you want your XP score to go up at least 10 points each time to receive credit.

*There are several places where you can find your XP score in Duolingo. Go to your PROFILE and look under LANGUAGES. You will see your score under your language. You can also find it on the right hand side of the screen under “Friends.”

The Cultural Explorations and Communications classes have been asked to help celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month this year at DAMS!  We will be using Google Slides and Screencastify to make a small video which MAY air on the morning announcements from September 19- October 14th.  Students whose projects air on the morning announcements will receive bonus points!  

Instructions: select a person from the list of names of famous Latinos or Hispanic Americans.  If you have one in mind that is not on the list, please send me a message for approval before starting your project.  You may complete the project individually or with a partner.  Your slide should include a photo of the person (school appropriate, of course) and 3-5 sentences about the person and their contribution to society.   Make sure that your text is easy to read (light colored text against dark background or dark text against light background).  Include appropriate music in the background (but make sure it is not louder than your narration).  

Resources: keep track of where you got your information and photo to be included in a separate Google Question.

Check out the sample slide below of Frida Kahlo to give you an idea of what your slide can look like.  Refer to the rubric to see how your project will be graded.

Please post which websites you used to find the information about your chosen person for this project.  Be sure to use reliable resources.  Be sure to also post the website where you got your photo.

Please write a response to the following prompt in Google Classroom today for Bell Work:

Think about a special dish (food) that your family only makes for a particular holiday, celebration, or event. What is it? Do you like it? Why or why not? What is the event, celebration, or holiday? Do you like this event, celebration, or holiday more or less because of this dish? Explain.

****Be sure to NUMBER your responses or you WILL lose points.

Please answer the following questions:
(1) What language are you studying this year in Duolingo?
(2) Are you learning the same language from last year or are you learning a new language?
(3) Why? (Explain why you decided to stick with the same language or change to a new language.)
(4) What is your current XP score?

Respond to the following writing prompt with 1-2 (or more) paragraphs.  Be sure use complete sentences, capitalize the first letter of sentences and proper nouns, and utilize appropriate end punctuation.  

Prompt: Explain what your name means.  Does it have a special meaning in a foreign language?  How did you get your name?  Do you have a nickname?  How did you get that nickname?  If you could change your name, what would you change it to?  Would a name change make you feel differently about yourself?  Why?  Try to include a personal anecdote (short story) about your name.  Has your name ever gotten you into trouble?

The topic is your name.  Your purpose is to inform us about your name, and the audience is your classmates.  Use your responses from The History of My Name handout to help get you started.

Be sure to include your resources at the end of your story.  This can simply be a list of websites you used to learn more about your name.  You may also include the names of family members and when you talked to them.  See the example below.

Resources:
https://www.behindthename.com/
https://nameberry.com/
Mary Dee Johnston (mother) interviewed on 8/30/22

Grading:
At least 1-2 paragraphs (5 points)
Conventions - see above (5 points) 
The response is on-task.  It informs us about your name.  (5 points)
Resources are listed at the end of the response (5 points) 
TOTAL POINTS = 20!

*Your final copy should be uploaded to this assignment to receive credit.
**I included a sample response that I wrote in class to help you see how to format your response.